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Monday’s assault is Russia’s first large-scale assault with drones and missiles since Kyiv launched its shock incursion into Russia’s Kursk area earlier this month. Ukrainian forces took management of two extra settlements in Kursk over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in a press release Sunday night.
The electrical energy shut-offs got here simply days after Ukraine’s state vitality firm Ukrenergo reported the system had returned to a secure vitality circulation.
“The transmission system operator has now entered the emergency energy outage mode,” Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko stated in a press release Monday. “The scenario is sophisticated; the outcomes of the assaults are being clarified.”
In the Dnipro area, one particular person was killed and several other fires had been reported, regional Governor Serhiy Lysak stated in a Telegram submit. In the capital of Kyiv, a number of districts had been left with out electrical energy and water, Mayor Vitaly Klitschko stated.
Poland scrambled fighter jets because of the elevated exercise of Russian bombers barraging western Ukraine, although Warsaw nonetheless refuses to shoot down missiles over Ukraine. The final time Poland mobilized its navy plane was throughout an enormous assault on July 8, when Russia bombed the most important youngsters’s hospital in Kyiv.
In his Telegram submit, Shmyhal renewed Kyiv’s pleas for weapons and permission from Ukraine’s allies to hit navy targets in Russia. “In order to cease the barbaric shelling of Ukrainian cities, it’s essential to destroy the place from which the Russian missiles are launched,” he stated. “For this, Ukraine wants long-range weapons and the permission of its companions to hit Russian objects with them.”
